Award-Winning Author, Editor, Teacher
Meg Pokrass
Meg Pokrass is an award-winning author of nine collections, including flash fiction, prose poetry, and hybrid work. She is founder and Managing Editor of the Best Microfiction series, co-founder of Flash Fiction Festival UK, and founder of New Flash Fiction Review. Meg serves as flash fiction judge for The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction and is the quarterly Flash Challenge Judge for Mslexia Magazine. She works privately with writers of all levels as a mentor and manuscript editor—and her generative flash fiction workshops are acclaimed for sparking creativity and opening new doors.
Meg’s latest full-length collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories (2024) is available from Dzanc Books.
Meg Pokrass is a transformative force for any writer of the short form. I turned to her for support on two separate projects with extraordinary results: my flash fiction chapbook, Combat Zones, won the Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest, judged by Roxane Gay, and my creative nonfiction chapbook, The Island of Ghost Ships, was accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. Her editorial eye is surgical yet soulful. She doesn’t just edit, she helps you see what your writing is truly capable of. Whether you are writing fiction or CNF, her mentorship is the best investment you can make in your writing career.
Taking Meg’s workshops and teaching ekphrastic workshops together has given me a window into her amazing imagination and improved my own writing immeasurably. She is a dynamite storyteller, but also has a very special gift for helping to shape a story. It is incredible how she will pull out the heart of the story and help a writer rearrange or finish it. Meg can help you bring your stories to life in a magical way.
I would not be writing flash without Meg Pokrass. I found my voice in flash. I didn’t even understand what that meant—finding your voice—until, suddenly, I realized I had done it. It was because of the community Meg built, the encouragement she offered, and, maybe more than anything, explaining to me what worked when it worked—why this story was better than that one. I’ve said I would not be writing flash without Meg and that’s true. I might not even be writing at all. The encouragement and finding my feet with her help came at a critical time for me.
Meg has recently been mentoring and supporting me with a manuscript of stories. I can’t recommend her highly enough. Her astute observations, suggestions and edits have, in my opinion, transformed the whole collection. Her enthusiasm and encouragement have also really helped my confidence as a writer and I’m excited to soon submit the finished collection. Great value in every sense.
Select Works
Kissing the Monster Hunter
Kissing the Monster Hunter is a new chapbook about monster hunters, unseen monsters, perpetual dreamers, and the creatures (human and otherwise) who love them. The unmissable prose poems and micros in this collection thrust us into an alternate reality where hope, love, and intimacy, when gone unrecognized, become a mystical force to be reckoned with.
The House of Grana Padano
Two modern masters of the fabulist micro, Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman, stretch language like magicians who are deep into their most amazing acts, creating elusive personas who can mime love, hate, anger or sorrow.
Damn Sure Right
This debut collection of eighty-four tales is sure to “ruin your waking hours the way you’ll want them ruined” (Kyle Minor).